Contributed by darrenhupke. Posted by aubin on Friday, January 18, 2013 at 4:00 PM (EST)

Max Bemis of Say Anything has announced plans to release his first comic series through Boom! Studios. The series, titled Polarity, which features protagonist Timothy Woods suffering from a bi-polar disorder, but for whom medication is repressing his super-powers. The series kicks off on April and each issue will include a download code for an original song from Bemis. Boom! described the comic:

It's a dark comedy about a man with bi-polar disorder who develops super powers as he descends into his mania. Kind of like bi-polar Spiderman, but with more pop-culture references.

bendis fucked him in dark avengers. that void role was going well until bendis added the angel of death shit in egypt...and then for sentry to commit suicide in siege after besting thor...made no sense.

Gah, Bendis poorly wrote The Hood and The Sentry... That Jenkins mini-series was super good, really fun to read. They could of done a lot of neat things with the character, then Bendis OVER wrote his scared/schizophrenic personality, kept him locked up with Osborn and never did anything original or exciting with him...

Did the same thing for the Hood. Made him some straight forward villan who thought he was the smartest crime lord around by trying to out think everyone, when all he was supposed to be was a 20-something guy who fell down the wrong path and could never make it right without getting a little more mixed up. I would of loved to see him attempt to redeem himself and struggle with his family, but ultimately be a slightly angrier version of Dr Strange. He should of been the new Sorcerer Supreme.

That sounds atrocious even without the promise of "more pop-culture references". And isn't that basically the plot of the Michael Rappaport movie 'Special'? And haven't 'dark comedies' about superheroes been done to death in the last decade? I thought there was supposed to be a tie between bipolar disorder and creativity. Even the Skibz, with all of his own chemical imbalances, finds creative new ways to be an asshole every day without having to ride the latest trends in fiction. Also, comic books are laaaaame...the future is in semaphore.

Yeah, I wrote that up pretty quickly... really needed to be re-read before being submitted. I do have to say, it's weird that they edit, and even add to, the submitted stories, but they don't correct grammer or awful structure. I'd edit it if I could, sorry.